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Airstrike reported close to crowds at Yemeni politician's funeral

Freda Brock |Sunday, April 29, 2018

Thousands of Yemenis in Funeral Procession for Senior Houthi Official in Sana

Thousands of Yemenis attended a funeral in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on Saturday for Saleh al-Samad, a top Houthi official killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike last week.

Saleh al-Samad, the head of the Supreme political Council of the rebels, supported by Iran, was killed in an air attack Saudi Arabia and its allies last week.

Al-Samad, who held the post of president in the Houthi-backed political body, was the most senior official to be killed by the Western-backed alliance, which had offered a $20-million U.S. reward for any information that led to Samad's capture.

In Saudi Arabia, Yemen's Shiite rebels have fired eight ballistic missiles at targets in southern city of Jizan.

The Saudi state media also reported that the kingdom-led coalition in an air strike killed two Shiite rebel leaders and dozens of their militiamen in Sanna.

The Lebanese al-Mayadeen television channel reported a Saudi strike near the funeral ceremony but there were no immediate reports of possible casualties.

The people raising flags of the Republic of Yemen and pictures of the martyr president and banners that read slogans against United States policy in the region and calling to confront the Saudi-led coalition aggression on Yemen.

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